trouble installing usbview due to unrecogized file format

cbravo135 · 07-01-2010, 10:28 AM

I was able to configure fine but when I make I get this error:

Quote:

[root@pc7341 usbview-1.1]# make -j 2
make all-am
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/l_tester/usbview-1.1'
gcc -g -O2 -Wall -o usbview main.o interface.o callbacks.o usbtree.o showmessage.o usbparse.o configure-dialog.o about-dialog.o ./../glib-2.24.0/gio/libgio-2.0.la ./../glib-2.24.0/gobject/libgobject-2.0.la ./../glib-2.24.0/gmodule/libgmodule-2.0.la -pthread ./../glib-2.24.0/glib/libglib-2.0.la ./../glib-2.24.0/gthread/libgthread-2.0.la -L/usr/local/lib -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lgdk-x11-2.0 -latk-1.0 -lpangoft2-1.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lpangocairo-1.0 -lcairo -lpango-1.0 -lfreetype -lfontconfig -lrt
./../glib-2.24.0/gio/libgio-2.0.la: file not recognized: File format not recognized
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [usbview] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/l_tester/usbview-1.1'
make: *** [all] Error 2

I know the file does exist and have no idea why it wouldn't recognize the format.

knudfl · 07-01-2010, 01:00 PM

Welcome to LQ. .. ..

Why do you use glib-2.24 ? ?
'usbview-1.1' requires gtk2-2.05 and an equivalent old glib2.

Both are already present on any Linux OS.
If you have Redhat EL5 or similar: # yum install gtk2-devel
Which will provide the development files for gtk2-2.10.4.
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5.4/...0.el5.i386.rpm

About libgio-2.0.la : Is a short text file.
Make a backup. Edit a few things, and it will fit.
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cbravo135 · 07-02-2010, 01:55 AM

Thank you for the warm welcome.

When trying to install usbview it informed me of the missing gtk2 dependency. when attempting to install gtk2 it had many dependencies so I went about solving them just getting the most up to date version of everything that worked. Eventually I got gtk2 to install successfully and I moved on to installing usbview again.

What do you suggest I change in libgio-2.0.la? I would have no idea what I can take out and what must stay.

cbravo135 · 07-02-2010, 02:11 AM

so I do not think I installed gtk2 before now, I installed gtk+. Now I need to work on solving the dependencies of gtk2. I took a comment line out of the .la file I was talking about and usbview thought it installed properly bur when I try to run it, it can not find a library it needs.

Quote:

./usbview: error while loading shared libraries: libgio-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

knudfl · 07-02-2010, 02:51 AM

? Why didn't you do # yum install gtk2-devel
?
Then yum takes care of the dependencies.

About gtk : gtk+ = gtk2 = gtk-2.xx.x

Not finding libgio-2.0.so.0 : Where did you hide it ?
'usbview' will look in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH only.
Say you have it installed to /usr/local/glib224/
Then you can do this command before typing 'usbview' :
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/glib224/lib/
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